Blood Bank

Some much blood spilled to gain freedom
Countless lives lost to found this great country
Other people were starved to death in the hills
Or rounded up and shot for your independence
Such heroic deeds and so much loss
So you can decide your own path
Free to make your choices count
This time there is no one else to blame

In contrast the blood bank is almost empty
A few sachets of blood is all that is there
People willing to give their life for their country
Can’t yet find it in themselves to donate their blood

Do you know you can help a stranger?
A fellow citizen can live by you giving blood.
What stops you from sacrificing now?
Spilt blood is washed away soaked into the land
A gift of blood is given to another and binds you
A nation more closely together leaving behind
Past differences and looking together to the future
Where the whole is more than the sum of parts

A-ve, B+ve what ever group you are the country need you
To give freely of you blood this time to build the nation
To bring unity and shared purpose to all is people
What a gift you can give to save a life at no cost to you.